Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-04-28
THE EAST.

JAMES WILLIS, wealthy Californian,
whose daughter Mabel was stolen from him
twelve years ago by variety actress, has
found the girl in the Rochester On. W In
dustrial School
DR. PARKER, of London, will deliver the
eulogy on Henry Ward Beecher in Brook
lyn, June "a, and will then lecture and
preach in several cities in the United
States.
THE engine of the early morning freight
train on the Central Vermont railroad left
the track at Sliphill, VT, on the 18th and
slid down the bank into the river. The
tender and cars kept to the rail. Both
ogineer and fireman escaped unhurt.
Four men who went out sailing from
New York City the other morning were
probably drowned as their empty boat was
found capsized on a reef down the bay in
the afternoon
ALEXANDER MITCHELL, president of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul railroad,
died at the Hoffman House, New York, on
the 10Th, of disease of the heart.
THE leading shoe manufacturers of New
York have formed an association and been
Incorporated under the title of the Boot
and Shoe Manufacturers Association of
New York" The object of the organiza-
ton is for the better protection of their
business and to resist demands that may
be made upon them by their employees.
THE Stove Manufacturers Association at
q meeting at Rochester, N. Y, on the Goth,
resolved to order all patterns of closed
factories in the West into the works of New
York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and
Eastern Pennsylvania.
BY the escape of gas from a main on Sec
ond avenue, New York, the other night,
one boy was severely burned by an explo-
sion and some eight persons narrowly es-
capped asphyxiation.
A DRAFT for S15, 900, drawn by the Bank
of North America of Philadelphia on the
Bank of New York in favor OF Dunn Bros,
has been lost or stolen. Payment has been
stopped
A STATEMENT was filed the other day in
the county clerks office at New York
showing that the directors of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, by two-thirds
vote, had increased its capital 81, 200, 900,
making total capital of SSl, zoo, 900.
THREE of the largest silver manufacture
ing firms in New York City have notified
their men that all members of labor organ
izations will be discharged.
EXERCISES in honor of the memory of ex-
President Arthur were held in the Assem-
bly, Chamber at Albany. N. Y, on the Goth.
TaE general assignment of George Clark,
the millionaire land owner and hop dealer
of Springfield, n. Y, shows S200,0 of uu-
satisfactory judgments outstanding. The
liabilities were estimated at 81, 600, CO.,
THE coroner's jury at Providence, R. l.,
in the case of Haslzins, the maniac who was
murdered in the State Insane Asylum by a
fellow inmate, returned a verdict holding
the General Assembly morally responsible
by reason of its failure to provide adequate
room, neceSsltating the putting of two in
mates in one room for the night.
THE bill permitting pool selling on race
tracks in New York was passed by the
New York Assembly on the 21st and now
goes to the Senate. 1t allows pool selling
for not to exceed thirty days during the
season on any track.
T1tE conductors and bralSemen on the
Buffalo division of the Laokawanna road
recently demanded one and a quarter days
paw for the run of $50 miles and threatened
TO strike.
THERE was much excitement and active
trading on the Coffee Exchange at New
York on the 21st. Coffee jumped up fifty
points. The cause of the sudden rise was
not made known